List of Famous Mathematicians


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First NameLast NameDatesNationalityKnown For
Abraham De Moivre26 May 1667 – November 27, 1754French De Moivre's formula, Theorem of de Moivre–Laplace
Ada Lovelace10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852English Analytical Engine
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwarizmic. 780 – c. 850 ADIranianTreatises on Algebra and Indian Numerals
AlanTuring23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954British Cryptanalysis of the Enigma, Turing machine, Turing test
AlbertEinstein14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955GermanGeneral Relativity and Special Relativity
AlbertusMagnusbefore 1200 – November 15, 1280German 
AlexanderGrothendieck28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014German-born FrenchAlgebraic Geometry
Alfred North Whitehead15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947English Principia Mathematica 
Andrew Wiles11th April 1953 - British Proving Fermat's Last Theorem
Archimedesc. 287 BC – c. 212 BCGreekArchimedes' Principle, Archimedes' Screw, Hydrostatics, Levers, Infinitesimals
Aristotlec. 384 – c. 322 BCGreekGolden Mean, Aristotelian Logic, Syllogism, Hexis, Hylomorphism, Theory of the soul
Arthur Cayley16 August 1821 – 26 January 1895BritishAlgebraic Geometry, Group Theory, Cayley–Hamilton Theorem, Cayley–Dickson Construction
Aryabhatac. 476 – c. 550 CEIndianExplanation of Lunar Eclipse and Solar Eclipse, Rotation of Earth on its Axis
Augustin-Louis Cauchy21 August 1789 – 23 May 1857French Pioneer of Analysis
AugustusDe Morgan27 June 1806 – 18 March 1871BritishDe Morgan's Laws, De Morgan Algebra, Relation Algebra, Universal Algebra
Benjamin BannekerNovember 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806American
Bernhard RiemannSeptember 17, 1826 – July 20, 1866GermanContributions to Analysis, Number Theory, Differential Geometry
Bertrand Russell18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970BritishMultiple Things
Blaise Pascal19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662FrenchPascal's Wager, Pascal's Triangle, Pascal's Law, Pascal's Theorem
Brahmaguptac. 598–c.670 ADIndianZero, Modern Number System
Brook Taylor18 August 1685 – 29 December 1731EnglishTaylor's Theorem
Carl Friedrich Gauss30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855GermanMultiple Things
CharlesBabbage26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871EnglishFather of Computer
Daniel Bernoulli8 February 1700 – 17 March 1782Swiss Bernoulli's Principle
David Hilbert23 January 1862 – 14 February 1943GermanHilbert's Basis Theorem, Hilbert's Axioms, Hilbert's Problems, Hilbert's Program, Einstein–Hilbert Action, Hilbert Space
Democritusc. 460 – c. 370 BCAncient Greek
Diophantusc. 250 – c.  350 ADGreekArithmetica
Edmund Halley8 November 1656 – 14 January 1742EnglishHalley's Comet
Edward Lorenz23 May 1917 – 16 April 2008AmericanChaos Theory, Lorenz Attractor, Butterfly Effect
EdwardWitten26th Aug 1951-American String Theory, M-Theory, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Field Theory, Supersymmetry
EmanuelLaskerDecember 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941German Mathematical Analysis of Card Games
Eratosthenesc. 276 BC – c. 194 BCGreekFirst Person to Calculate the Circumference of the Earth
EuclidMid-4th century BC – Mid-3rd century BCGreekEuclidean Geometry, Euclid's Elements, Euclidean Algorithm
Évariste Galois25 October 1811 – 31 May 1832French Work on the Theory of Equations and Abelian Integrals
Felix Klein25 April 1849 – 22 June 1925GermanWorks in Group Theory, Complex Analysis, Non-Euclidean Geometry
Filippo Brunelleschic. 1377 – April 15, 1446ItalianDome of Santa Maria del Fiore
G.H. HardyFebruary 1877 – 1 December 1947English Hardy-Weinberg Principle, Hardy–Ramanujan Asymptotic Formula
Gaspard Monge9 May 1746 – 28 July 1818French Descriptive Geometry
Georg CantorMarch 3, 1845 – January 6, 1918GermanSet Theory
George Boole2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864English Boolean Algebra
Giuseppe Peano27 August 1858 – 20 April 1932ItalianPeano Axioms, Peano Curve, Peano Existence Theorem, Formulario Mathematico, Latino Sine Flexione
Gottfried LeibnizJuly 1, 1646 – November 14, 1716GermanCalculus, Monads, Best of all Possible Worlds, Leibniz Formula for π, Leibniz Harmonic Triangle
Gottlob Frege8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925GermanPrinciple of Compositionality, Quantification Theory, Predicate Calculus
Grace Murray HopperDecember 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992American Invented First Compiler
Grigori Perelman24271RussianRiemannian Geometry, Geometric Topology, Proof of the Poincaré Conjecture
Henri Poincaré29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912FrenchPoincaré Conjecture
Heron Of Alexandriac. 10 – c. 70 ADGreekAeolipile
Hipparchusc. 190 – c. 120 BCGreekFounder of Trigonometry
Isaac Newton4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727English Principia, Calculus
Jacob Bernoulli6 January 1655 – 16 August 1705Swiss Bernoulli Differential Equation, Bernoulli Numbers, Bernoulli's Formula
Johann Bernoulli6 August 1667 – 1 January 1748 Swiss Development of Infinitesimal Calculus, Catenary Solution, Bernoulli's Rule, Bernoulli's Identity
John Napierc. 1550 – 4 April 1617Scottish Logarithms, Napier's Bones, Decimal Notation
John Nash10392American Nash Equilibrium, Nash Embedding Theorem, Nash Functions, Nash–Moser Theorem
John Venn4 August 1834 – 4 April 1923English Venn Diagram
John Von NeumannDecember 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957Hungarian, AmericanPrincipal Member of the Manhattan Project
John Wallis23 November 1616 – 28 October 1703English Wallis Product, Inventing the Symbol ∞
Joseph Fourier21 March 1768 – 16 May 1830FrenchFourier Series, Fourier Transform, Fourier's Law of Conduction
Joseph Louis Lagrange25 January 1736 – 10 April 1813ItalianAnalytical Mechanics, Celestial Mechanics, Mathematical Analysis, Number Theory
Julia RobinsonDecember 8, 1919 – July 30, 1985AmericanDiophantine Equations, Decidability
Kurt GödelApril 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978Austrian, AmericanGödel's Incompleteness Theorems, Gödel's Completeness Theorem,
Leonhard Euler15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783Swiss Euler's Function, Euler's Equation, and Euler's Formula
Liu Huic. 225 AD – c. 295 ADChineseThe Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
Luca Paciolic. 1447 – c. 1517ItalianSumma de Arithmetica, De Divina Proportione
Madhavac. 1340 – c. 1425IndianDiscovery of power series expansions of trigonometric sine, cosine and arctangent functions
Maurits Escher17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972DutchDrawing, Printmaking
Niels Henrik Abel5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829NorwegianAbel's Binomial Theorem, Abelian Category, Abelian Variety
Omar Khayyam18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131PersianTreatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra
Paul CohenApril 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007AmericanCohen Forcing, Continuum Hypothesis
Pierre De Fermat17 August 1601 – 12 January 1665FrenchNumber Theory, Analytic Geometry, Fermat's Principle, Probability, Fermat's Last Theorem
Pierre-Simon Laplace23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827FrenchLaplace's Equation & Tranforms
Platoc. 424/423 – c. 348/347 BCGreek
Ptolemyc. 90 – c. 168 ADGreco-Egyptian Publishing The Amalgest
Pythagorasc. 570 – c. 495 BCIonian GreekPythagorean Theorem
René Descartes31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650French Analytical Geometry
SophieGermain1 April 1776 – 27 June 1831French Elasticity Theory, Differential Geometry, Number Theory
Srinivasa Ramanujan22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920IndianLandau–Ramanujan Constant
Thalesc. 624 – c. 546 BCGreekThales' Theorem
William Rowan Hamilton4 August 1805 – 2 September 1865Irish Hamiltonian Mechanics

2 thoughts on “List of Famous Mathematicians

  • April 26, 2021 at 3:12 am
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    I was looking for a website that would have and show the dates of birth and even death of famous mathematicians. Seems to me, I found it.
    However, the birthdates of two of your information pieces only show that info as a code or something. Those two I found are for John Nash, and Grigori Perelman.
    If you have any other information of any mathematicians, that would appreciated.
    I have been a high school math teacher for 33 years, and am always looking for new ideas and information for the students to research and even write about.
    Hope to ‘hear’ from you soon.

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  • November 6, 2020 at 6:15 pm
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    Fruitfull and Excellent Informations

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